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Smoking Addiction? Easy Ways To Break It With Hypnosis

Author: Alan B. Densky Ch

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Breaking the smoking addiction may be a necessity at this point in history, because cigarettes have been banned from eateries and other public places. In fact, it is definitely the intelligent thing to do for more reasons than good health alone. This editorial explores the very best Neuro-Linguistic Programming methodologies that can be employed to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes and tobacco.

There are 3 distinct parts to a smoking addiction. Two of the elements are mental, and one part is physical.

Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were an infant and you became cranky, your mother would put a pacifier into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become mellow, and often fall asleep. That sequence of events was repeated many, many times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are an adult, if you feel nervous or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a cigarette!

Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and the sound of the bell would trigger the dogs to salivate.

When you pair smoking a cigarette with any other action, the other action will trigger cravings for a cigarette and a feeling of urgency to smoke. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you smoke a cigarette when you see someone else smoking, you will automatically get an urge to smoke a cigarette each time you see someone else smoking.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person smokes a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a picture of the cigarette in the hand, and ties it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, her unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.

You may not be consciously aware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until something or someone draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.

Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .

I've worked with several thousand people for smoke cessation and I give you my guarantee that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the smoking habit. I believe that ninety percent of the addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

If you can eliminate the feeling of tension that causes you to light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling compulsions for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up smoking without requiring willpower, and without having to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Hypnosis can help encourage a smoker to stop smoking. Hypnosis will make it easy to give up smoking because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where you light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts which create anxiety. More specifically, people constantly watch mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it manufactures a feeling of anxiety.

We can use different hypnotic methods to train the subconscious to automatically take those tension creating mental pictures, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This manufactures relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the tension that triggers the oral cravings and compulsions for cigarettes.

Because of the elimination of feelings of tension, the smoker who is quitting doesn't feel the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where you smoke because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time people get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette creates an urge to smoke?

There are quit smoking hypnosis, and quit smoking NLP techniques that can effectively erase those conditioned responses so that a smoker's subconscious will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.

TO SUMMARIZE

In summary, by using certain NLP methods, it can be very easy to quit smoking without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these hypnotic techniques do not even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on training the mind to use the same thought processes that the subconscious mind is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.

About Author

Alan B. Densky, CH started his practice starting in 1978. He offers Neuro-VISION Video Quit Smoking Hypnosis DVDs and Audio Quit Smoking Self Hypnosis Programs. Visit his website for the free repository of original hypnosis & NLP articles or download FREE hypnosis and NLP MP3's. http://www.neuro-vision.us/Products/NeuroVISIONSmokingDvd.htm

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